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◆ Vigorous programs of environmental improvement to improve the image and marketability of the Gateway. ◆ Transport improvements to increase the accessibility of workplaces and to open up unused and underused sites, including major employment generators. ◆ Better social and community infrastructure to contribute to the area’s attractiveness to investment and to stable, aspirational resident communities. 2.8 All three regions want to see a diverse range of employment. They wish to consolidate the Gateway’s existing strengths in areas such as finance and business services, transport and logistics and pharmaceuticals in order to strengthen innovation capacity and increase jobs in growth sectors such as innovation and knowledge based industries, green industries and cultural and media industries. There is a risk, especially in the western and mid parts of the Gateway, that too much land may be released to low density uses and thereby obstruct the potential for uses generating more jobs and wider economic benefit or for release of that land to residential use. Manufacturing remains an important, but changing sector in the Gateway. A clear strategy is needed to manage the release of land, where this is appropriate; to examine potential for a greater mix of uses, including housing, in areas of lighter industry; and consolidate, improve and intensify solid industrial areas. 3. Transport Capacity 3.1 A transport system that is already liable to congestion and delay in several areas will need to accommodate major growth in population and employment and to handle the increasing flows of people and goods moving through the Gateway between the UK and the continent. The continuous strengthening of transport infrastructure is critical to the success of the Gateway, a key driver for change. Improved access will be an essential part of the public’s acceptance of growth on this scale and willingness to live there. It will also be a pre-condition of private sector investment of the size needed. Improved connections across the river are needed to widen job opportunities and to increase the coherence of the Gateway as a sub-region. 9
10 KEY Crossrail Channel Tunnel Rail Link Channel Tunnel Rail Link Domestic East London Line Extension DLR Extensions DLR under construction East London Transit Phase 1 East London Transit Further Phases Greenwich Waterfront Transit Phase 1 Greenwich Waterfront Transit Further Phases Fastrack Road Improvements Thameslink 2000 Lower Thames Crossing Swale Crossing
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